Juozas Grigaitis
Juozas Grigaitis (born February 28, 1881 in Paraišupys , Wolost Javaravas , now Marijampolė municipality , † January 19, 1947 in Dorothy , New Jersey ) was a Lithuanian lawyer , judge , lieutenant general .
Life
In 1904 Grigaitis completed his law studies at the University of Moscow in Russia and then served in the life guards in Finland , from 1906 in the war directorate in Vilnius and Vitebsk in the Imperial Russian Army . In 1919 he was mobilized by the Lithuanian Army . From 1920 to 1922 he worked at the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania . From 1921 to 1923 he taught at the college courses for officers in Kaunas . From 1922 he worked as an assistant to the state defender in the military court . From 1923 to 1926 he was a member of this military tribunal and temporarily worked as the court president . In 1926 he was promoted to lieutenant general. From 1927 to 1933 he headed the Kaunas District Court as court president . From 1933 to 1940 he was a judge at the Lietuvos Vyriausiasis Tribunolas .
Grigaitis was one of the founders of the Lietuvos teisininkų draugija association .
From 1941 to 1944 he was a judge at Apeliaciniai rūmai . In 1944 he emigrated to Germany and in 1946 to the USA .
Awards
- 1928: Gediminas Order , 3rd level
literature
- Kazimieras Tamašauskas, Vytautas Zabielskas. Juozas Grigaitis. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , T. VII (Gorkai-Imermanas). - Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų Leidybos institutas, 2005. 155 psl.
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SURNAME | Grigaitis, Juozas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer, judge, lieutenant general |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1881 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paraišupys , Wolost Javaravas , now Marijampolė parish |
DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1947 |
Place of death | Dorothy , New Jersey |